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...DIED. SABURO IENAGA, 89, Japanese historian nominated for the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize who devoted more than 50 years of his life to campaigning against the watering down of Japan's wartime atrocities in school textbooks; in Tokyo. Ienaga's crusade began in 1965 when he sued the government for rejecting his revised edition of A New History of Japan. Detailing the darker side of the country's past, including the Rape of Nanjing and experiments on POWs, the book was criticized by the Ministry of Education for being "too gloomy on the whole." The Supreme Court finally approved...
...with a mischievous grin who told Tome to stop crying over his departure or else "you'll go bald." There was handsome Ryoji Uehara, also 22, who sent his intended a parting message by circling letters in a book. ("Kyoko-chan, goodbye," it read. "I love you.") There was Saburo Miyakawa, 20, who on the eve of his mission told Tome he would see her at the eatery the next night. He smiled at her bafflement and explained, "I'll come back as a firefly." When a firefly bobbed into the eatery the next night, Tome cried, "Look, everyone...
...clues either. "There are very few glimpses of daily life," complains Arizona State University anthropologist George Cowgill. The best information scientists have to date comes from a series of mass graves discovered about a decade ago in the so-called Feathered Serpent Pyramid by Cowgill, his Arizona State colleague Saburo Sugiyama and Ruben Cabrera of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History. Most of the 150 skeletons found there were buried with their hands and feet bound, suggesting that they had been sacrificed; most of them were also dressed as soldiers and armed with obsidian-tipped spears and other...
...military set a new target date of Dec. 8 (Dec. 7 in Hawaii), and the Emperor and his military chiefs formally approved Yamamoto's attack plan on Nov. 3. But the Foreign Ministry instructed Ambassador Nomura and Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu to make "a final effort" in Washington...
...Instead of encountering a swarm of enemy fighters," recalled Saburo Sakai, pilot of a Zero fighter, "we looked down and saw some 60 enemy bombers and fighters neatly parked. They squatted there like sitting ducks. Our accuracy was phenomenal. The entire air base seemed to be rising into the air with the explosions. Great fires erupted, and smoke boiled upward...